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Ottumwa Courier (Ottumwa, IA)

January 14, 1869

Information Wanted.

A colored man commonly called
Harry Bowen, escaped from his master,
Jerry Wayland, near St. Francisville
Mo., about New Years night 1859.

It is supposed that he went to
Chicago, and from there to Canada,
but has not been heard from since
his escape, notwithstanding the
three hundred dollars in specie offered…

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Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

August 14, 1873

Wedding After Forty Years of
Separation.

Our town is all agog this morning
over the wedding that is to be celebrated
in a day or two between Aunt
Vina Johnson, an old colored lady of
our place, and a former husband,
from whom she has been separated
for forty years. Forty-three years
ago Aunt Vina was the slave of a Mr.
Johnson, in…

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Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

October 17, 1867

Two brothers, colored, met in the streets of Cincinnati, last Sunday, after a separation of sixty years. Their names are Joshua and Solomon Collins. They were both formerly slaves in Fleming county, Virginia. Joshua bought his freedom in 1849, and re-moved to Cincinnati, where he has since resided. Solomon ran away from his master, then living in…

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Boston Post (Boston, MA)

February 22, 1876

---George Thompson is a negro of Newport, 81 years of age, who escaped from slavery at Freder-ick, Md., forty-six years ago, leaving a wife and family, and who has just heard from his wife, whom he had given up for dead, having been unable to hear from her in years past. Since his flight to the North he has married, but his second wife and four…

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Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

February 1, 1883

DEAR EDITOR :- I wish to see if
my relatives can be found. My
father and mother were named
Thomas and Clarisey Jones. My
mother is dead; my father belonged to
John Ebert; but they were sold to
Mr. Walker. He set them free and
they went to Tennessee and left me
in Vicksburg, Miss., with John
Ebert. I had three brothers that
I…

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Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

December 22, 1855

INFORMATION WANTED.
THE Undersigned takes this method of ascertaining
the whereabouts of his Brother,
JOHN W. HINES, of Bowling Green, Warren
County, Kentucky, from whom he received a
letter, stating his arrival in Canada. Any person
having a knowledge of Mr. Hines, will
please inform him, and oblige
GEORGE T. SMITH,
Chatham,…

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Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

November 10, 1855

INFORMATION WANTED.
ELLEN NETTLETON wants to find her
husband, GEORGE NETTLETON. She
got parted from him at one of the Stations west
of Hamilton, and don't know the place he his gone
to. He had two young children with him. She
is in Chatham, a stranger and without money.
Exchanges will serve the cause of humanity by
making the above…

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The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

October 8, 1891

INFORMATION WANTED.--of Geo.
G. Gordey of Laurel, Sussex Co., Dela-
ware, who belonged to a man named Hobbs
He (Gordey) went from Laurel to Agusta.
Ga., from Agusta Ga., to Canada, return-
ing to Mississppi, since which time his
mother, Julia Gordey, now Julia Smith,
and his sister Ruth Ann Little, have not
heard of him. Any information…

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The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

June 12, 1869

INFORMATION WANTED.
Information wanted of my mother, Debo-
rah Brown, of Chestertown, Kent Co., Md.
She was a slave of Daniel Collins, but
escaped from him in 1854. Five years ago
I heard she was in Canada. Any inforrma-
tion of her whereabouts will be thankfully
received. Address
SARAH ELIZABETH BROOKS,
…

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